Metaphysical Dictionary Terms.......C. Fillmore

Holy Spirit - The activity of God in a universal sense. The moving force in the universe taken as a whole. The Spirit is the infinite “breath” of God, the life essence of Being. “And he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit” (John 20:22). Holy Spirit is the love of Jehovah taking care of the human family. The Holy Spirit is in the world today with great power and wisdom, ready to be poured upon all who look to it for guidance. Its mission is to bring all men into communion with God; to guide men in order that they will not mistake the way into the light. The Holy Spirit is third in the Trinity, which in theology is designated: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In metaphysics we approach the Trinity and more readily realize its meaning through the terms mind, idea, and expression. To be “filled with the Holy Spirit” is to realize the activities of Spirit in individual consciousness. The quickening of a man by the Holy Spirit is peculiar to each individual and must be experienced to be understood. The Holy Spirit is authority on the gospel of Jesus. It is the only authority that Jesus ever recognized, and whoever attempted to set forth His gospel from any other standpoint is in the letter not the spirit. No man can know what Jesus’ doctrine is except he gets it direct from the one and only custodian. It is not to come secondhand, but each for himself must receive it from the Holy Spirit, which is sent by the Father in the name of the son.

Baptism - The spiritual cleansing of the mind. Typifies the cleansing power and work of Spirit that redeems men from sin. It is the first step in the realization of Truth. When the baptizing power of the word is poured on a center in consciousness, it dissolves all material thoughts, and through this cleansing, purifying process, the individual is prepared to see and to discern spiritually. The two baptisms, those of John and Jesus, represent the two common steps in spiritual development, denial and affirmation, or the dropping of the old and laying hold of the new. In the first baptism, that John, through the power of the word, the sense man erased from consciousness, and the mind purged and made ready for the second baptism, that of Jesus. In the second baptism, the creative law of divine affirmation, set into action by supreme Mind, lights its fires at the center of man’s being, and when thus kindled raises soul and body to a high degree of purity. This process is known as regeneration.

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